OOC: Anyone who wishes to contribute RP to this on-going arcane project is welcome, though for the moment it is centred around a character experimenting in Tarkuul and occasionally Belenoth. The character's work is left open for public forum and debate by his peers.
The Vitality Nexus Project
A singular, male shape sat hunched over a desk in Castle Tarkuul's Library, thick church candles burnt atop stacks of books. His quill danced over the pages; a stream of consciousness that left his academic scrawl filling the pages in a wake of dark ink. His eyes glancing to a pair of nearby letters with some satisfaction before he continued.
Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia [GMT +10]
A contribution is made to the research logs, though this particular entry is written in draconic.
Such a splendid project, as a lover of the necromantic arts I do see the potential value in this kind of project. Too long have we arcanists been restricted to the side of Entropy, barred from the other half where much magical promise is held. While I do cherish the time honoured traditions of destruction and defilement that necromancy has long lent itself too, it is time for some "growth" as it were. Assuming your sides have not split open from that ingenious pun, I will now offer my musings on this subject for the benefit of necromancers unfamiliar with Positive Energy and healing but are interested in this project.
My thoughts first go to the nature of the energy we are dealing with, as necromancers we dabble in the cycles of life and death through utilisation of the energies from the Positive and Negative planes; the energies of creation and destruction, growth and entropy.
Therein lays our first problem, firstly that healing is an act of restoration. Of mending what is there. Positive Energy is the energy of creation, of making something that is not already there. In essence, it is not the power of restoration and that is a key difference I think we will first have to overcome to properly harness this power for the purposes of healing magic. I believe you have already referenced the problematic aspects of this difference with the issue of too much tissue growth, indeed should one go to the Positive Plane without the proper protections, it is quite possible you will explode due to excessive tissue growth!
The healing magics practised by the clergy are of course an example that it is still possible to achieve this, but how do they get away with this? Unlike us arcanists, they employ an intermediary force of greater beings, gods. Gods who are able to prepare these spells for their servants in advance, beings that have a much better equipped mind to understand and handle of the cosmic energies that are pervasive in reality itself.
Unfortunately our own "healing" spells are flawed, the life gained by False Life and Vampiric Touch for instance are only temporary effects.
I believe there is merit to meaningful collaboration in this project, it is something with a practical purpose. Do indicate your interest if you are open to working with myself.
Naltyrr Zau’tar Ul’Faeruk of the Thraan’dariv Sorcere
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